u/Broadfern

Deckyloader is a plugin hub for all sorts of customization and QoL changes. I mainly use it for color customization, artwork changes, ProtonDB icons, and HowLongToBeat stats when I’m deciding on a new game.

I also use it to download custom boot animations and sounds. It’s mostly geek tweaks but gives you a sense of extra power over your device on the game mode side.

Here’s the primary website link: https://decky.xyz/

I haven’t looked into 1 but from my experience yes, 2 does wipe your changes with every OS update. Coming from another arch-based system it was my preference too but I learned the hard way. Yes it’s annoying but for an immutable distro like SteamOS it’s simpler to install via flatpak.

If you’re using desktop mode in handheld it does take a minute for the trackpads to work because it uses steaminput, and the Steam client needs to start separately in desktop mode. Touch works immediately.

Make sure to put your go-to file paths in Places (I think that’s what it’s called) because navigating Dolphin in handheld can also be mildly annoying.

If you’re using a customizer like DeckyLoader holding off on updates for a week or so until there’s confirmation of stability and compatibility is advisable, but that’s more for handheld mode.

Slowly rebuilding some of my Switch library on Steam (I prefer my Deck) so I picked up both Cattails games on sale (total of ~$9 atm!) and been replaying those. Very sweet, easy games for a quick dose of fun.

Hell yeah.

When in doubt, ProtonDB also has a “Steam Deck” tab for reports.

Usually controller support is enough, though.

I’m USian, so if it’s any consolation it’s relevant to me lol.

Pretty obvious Trump is Putin’s puppet, anyhow.

“Nation of people getting screwed over by genocidal, repressive, oligarch warhawks is getting tired of the bullshit” *should* have been common sense, but selfish pricks gonna selfish prick.

Hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths all because of the power-hungry egos of an elite few (specifically Putin and his oligarchs, not the Ukrainian people defending themselves).

The first to call for these wars should be the first on the front lines. Fuckers.

There’s an American comedian, Gary Gulman, who has a joke something along the lines of “Pop Tarts were invented as a way to say ‘fuck you’ to poor people.”

They are objectively terrible; given mainly to the children whose parents did not have the time to make them breakfast, or could not afford a better meal. Fondness for them comes from nostalgia, most likely.

These are also the same people who prefer kids act as bullet sponges during school hours, then ~~groom/coerce~~ encourage the survivors just before they come of age to be ~~rapists, pillagers, and murderers~~ bullet sponges to ~~fuel corporate and imperialist interests~~ “defend the country.”

Bonus points for tossing veterans aside like trash the moment they step foot back on US soil 🤡

There’s an extra layer of schadenfreude for these pricks when the deceased are poor, brown, and/or of (nonwhite) immigrant background.

Let’s just say I wouldn’t cry reading the obituary of a forced birther. /rant